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PLIP Install HOWTO

Gilles Lamiral, lamiral@mail.dotcom.fr

v1.15, 26 November 1999

This paper describes how to install a Gnu|Linux distribution on a computer without Ethernet card, nor cdrom, but just a local floppy drive and a remote nfs server attached by a Null-Modem parallel cable. The nfs server has a cdrom drive mounted and exported.

You can find the last release of the PLIP-Install-HOWTO, by Gilles Lamiral, located at:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PLIP-Install-HOWTO.html

1. Introduction

2. License

3. How did I wrote this howto ?

4. What do you need ?

5. The documentation

6. Conventions

7. Network parameters

8. PLIP on the Source side

9. The cdrom nfs server side

10. FIPS, splitting of harddisk partitions

11. Debian installation

12. Install the plip interface permanently

13. Need to compile a new kernel ?

14. What's new

15. Todo

16. List of contributors and acknowledgements

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